Registerfly Is On The Way Out.

[Deverill]

I found this information out today (it's from the middle of March but very pertinent to some):

 

On Friday ICANN issued a formal notice — effective March 31, 2007 — terminating Registerfly’s status as an ICANN accredited registrar. This means, assuming Registerfly does not successfully challenge the decreditation in court, it will no longer be allowed to register domain names or to display the ICANN logo after March 31. (NOTE: For details surrounding the fiasco that resulted in Registerfly's decredidation, please see my two prior articles.)

 

What this means is that anyone registered via RegisterFly or hosted there is in risk of their site going *poof*. There are allegations that one of the guys running the company used company money for cars, personal escorts, liposuction, South Beach (Miami) condos, etc. and ran the company into the ground. They also say that he locked the rest of them out of some of the servers.

 

There are lots of folks that bought domains that say they never got registered and ICANN, the ruling organization over all domain names, has revoked their rights to be a registrar, pending appeal should they choose to do so. When the dust settles ICANN will approve a mass-transfer of the remaining domains to another registrar. You can find info about it at ICANN's website - there's a link on the front page about RegisterFly and what you can do if you use them.

 

It's a real ugly situation and everyone dealing with them is in a tough spot. This makes me so much more grateful for TCH and the integrity from both them and the registrar they partner with to register domain names so that we never have to have these kinds of discussions about our sites!